Chapter 10 The Aura of a Scumbag Hits You Right in the Face
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 10
Chapter Title: The Aura of a Scumbag Hits You Right in the Face
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"They even have servants? Are they nobles?"
"So beautiful..."
"Macao, be careful not to let your wife see that look of yours..."
"You're so annoying! Besides, Wakaba, where are your eyes looking at right now?"
"You better explain yourself clearly!"
As the group entered the guild, they quickly attracted the attention of the crowd of Fairy Tail mages who were currently drinking and chatting inside. After briefly sizing up the group with a glance, they continued to drink and shoot the breeze.
"Yo, I wonder what you few have come to our guild for?"
After Evan and the others walked near the bar counter, Gildarts let go of the beer mug on the counter and stood up. He leaned over, looked at Evan and the others, and asked.
For a moment, a domineering aura radiated from him...
"Is this Fairy Tail's strongest mage?"
Evan looked at Gildarts and nodded gently. He could feel that the magic power within the man’s body was unfathomably deep, and it was even above his own. No wonder Gildarts could escape with his life from Acnologia and fight back and forth with the Magic King August for a short period of time.
"Hahaha, Gildarts, could it be that this is a romantic debt you stirred up outside, and now she brought the child to find you?"
"Look, that brat's hair color is the same as yours! Both are brownish-red..."
"Hahaha, we have a good show to watch this time..."
Just as Gildarts was looking at Evan and the others with a serious expression on his face, he suddenly heard the sound of someone's hearty laughter coming from the guild hall.
"So noisy! If you guys don't open your mouths, no one will treat you as mutes, you know!?"
Gildarts first roared angrily at those causing a ruckus, and then he looked at Evan with a guilty conscience. After roughly confirming the boy’s hair color with his own, his body began to tremble slightly. He lowered his head, pressed his mouth near Evan's ear, and lowered his voice, asking the latter.
"B-brat! Your, your, your old lady, is it Maria, or Sophia, no, that's not right, c-could it be..."
In an instant, the composure of the originally domineering Gildarts broke, turning him into a greasy middle-aged man.
‘Uncle, you really do have illegitimate children outside...
And from the sound of your muttering, there's more than just one?’
The corners of Evan's eyes twitched slightly.
"Gildarts, go handle your own family problems outside! Don't drag the guild into it..."
The little old man sitting on the bar counter, who was precisely Fairy Tail's Third Guild Master Makarov, stared at Evan and sized him up for a while. Then, he turned his body around and closed his eyes.
It was as if he was saying 'out of sight, out of mind'...
"No, Master, listen to my explanation first, okay?"
Hearing this, Gildarts immediately turned his head to look at the old man and spoke loudly, looking as if he wanted to explain himself clearly.
Unfortunately, Makarov didn't turn his head to look at him at all. It seemed that the old man already had a set conclusion in his heart.
Seeing that the Guild Master was ignoring him, Gildarts helplessly turned his head back in Evan's direction, looked at the boy once more, and asked.
"So, which one was your mother again? I, I can't remember too clearly, uh-hehe..."
"..."
Evan didn't speak. He merely felt the aura of a scumbag hitting him right in the face.
"Evan’s my child..."
Just as Gildarts was feeling nervous, Irene, who had remained silent this whole time, spoke up.
"Hmm?!"
Hearing this, Gildarts began to size Irene up and down. He rubbed his chin while looking up and down, left and right, and after carefully looking at Irene, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Phew~ Thank goodness, I don't know her!
Rest assured! This brat isn’t my illegitimate child!"
Gildarts revealed a relaxed smile to his companions inside the guild, and then he did a thumbs-up.
"Although Evan isn’t my biological child..."
Then he heard Irene continue to speak.
"Ah..."
Gildarts, who was just planning to pick up the beer on the table to suppress his shock, suddenly stiffened upon hearing this, and the beer flowed down his chin.
"So disgusting! Gildarts!"
Inside the guild, the crowd of guild members who were looking at him with teasing gazes, intending to watch the fun, collectively complained.
"So whose child are you exactly? Maria's? No, that's not right, Maria's pupils are green, Sophia's are blue, could you be Sophie's child?!"
Gildarts wiped the beer staining his chin. He rubbed his stubble while continuously observing Evan’s features. But even if he racked his brains at this moment, he still couldn't remember exactly whose child this boy was.
"Sigh, I'm not here to find you. I'm here to join Fairy Tail..."
Evan looked speechlessly at this middle-aged man in front of him who was strong but a scumbag.
"Join Fairy Tail? Brat, do you want to become a mage of Fairy Tail?"
Makarov, who had originally been hiding to the side while enjoying the gossip, leaped lightly and jumped down from the bar counter upon hearing Evan’s words. He landed in front of the boy, clasped his hands behind his back, and asked.
"Yes."
Evan nodded as he looked down at this Fairy Tail Guild Master who was even a bit shorter than him. However, he didn’t look down on the short Makarov because of this. Although he was no longer at his peak at this time, Makarov could still be considered in the prime of his life. His enormous magic power and powerful magic allowed him to stand firmly at the forefront of the Wizard Saints, second only to Warrod and other so-called non-human existences.
Moreover, based solely on Makarov’s character, Evan also wouldn't despise this small-statured old man in front of him.
"Alright! Then hold out your hand!"
As Makarov spoke, he took out the Fairy Tail guild's stamp with a smile.
"Hmm?!"
Evan was stunned for a moment, and then he did as he was told. He held out his hand.
Smack~
Closely following that, Makarov stamped the Fairy Tail guild's mark on the back of Evan's left hand. At the same time, the old man sent a kind gaze to Evan, as if he was looking at his own child, and then said.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail! From today onwards, we’re both companions and family!"
"It's that simple?!"
Evan looked at the stamp on the back of his hand, stunned. However, whether it was the system in his mind displaying that the advanced quest had been completed, or Makarov's welcome, all of them were undeniably stating that he had successfully become a member of Fairy Tail.
"Becoming companions and family doesn’t require a reason."
Makarov smiled and nodded. He then looked at Erza and the others, and asked softly.
"Who else wants to join the Fairy Tail guild? Grandpa will press the guild's stamp on you too. You can freely choose both the color and the location~"
The old man’s smiling appearance made him look like an old fox who had discovered good seedlings. In fact, he was more than eager for Evan and the others to join Fairy Tail~
Moreover, based on his years of experience, he thought that neither Evan nor Erza were bad children.
Perhaps Evan was a bit more shrewd, but compared to Makarov, whose life experience far exceeded the boy’s, he was still a bit too young.
"Me! I also want to join!"
Erza raised her small hand. Seeing Evan join the guild also made her want to join.
"Alright! From today onwards, you’re also a member of Fairy Tail."
With Erza's application and Makarov's stamping, the former also officially became a member of Fairy Tail.
"Umm..."
After stamping the guild marks for both Evan and Erza, Makarov looked at Irene.
His gaze toward Irene was very solemn. Honestly speaking, only this woman in front of him was someone he couldn't see through at all. He clearly couldn't feel any magic power flowing within the woman's body, but every cell in his body was on high alert, as if the woman in front of him was some terrifying monster.
This level of terror far exceeded the sum of all the horror Makarov had seen in his entire life!
The Guild Master believed in his intuition. He knew that Irene was definitely not as simple as she appeared to be.
"Alright~"
Seeing that Evan and Erza had both become members of Fairy Tail, Irene also joined in along with the two of them. She similarly had the mark stamped on the back of her hand. The stamp color Irene chose was exactly the same as her long scarlet hair— a beautiful and glamorous scarlet red.
Evan looked at the Fairy Tail stamp on the back of Irene's hand and breathed a sigh of relief. When he had the stamp pressed onto the back of his hand, his sharp senses caught a faint trace of something. It seemed that there was a mysterious and invisible thread connecting everyone who possessed the Fairy Tail emblem together. The deeper the bond, the more obvious this feeling became. Evan could clearly feel the profound bond Irene and Erza had with him, and at the same time, he could also feel Makarov's deep love that treated all guild members equally.
"Sure enough, the guild emblem is Fairy Tail's true foundation. It's a Super Magic that transcends Fairy Tail's Three Great Fairy Magics!"
Evan sighed with emotion in his heart, while simultaneously thinking silently: if a mage of Irene's level also activated the amplification of the Fairy Tail bond cheat, just how exaggerated would it be?
He only thought about it for a moment before stopping himself. Mainly because it was too hard for him to imagine...
As for Ilya, Ian, and Eden, under Irene's instruction, they also joined Fairy Tail. It was just that when Makarov was stamping the Fairy Tail emblems for the three, he sensed that something was slightly off with them. However, he didn't say much. Everyone in the guild had their own secrets. As long as they didn't harm the guild, then it didn't matter!
"Brats, let's celebrate! Today, in just a few short minutes, we gained six new members! Let's drink to our hearts' content!"
Makarov said this as he raised the beer mug in his hand high. Though even if he had said nothing at all, the guild members would have still drunk to their hearts' content, because this group of people had simply never stopped in the first place.
"Right, you pay for your own drinks!"
After the Guild Master was finished speaking, he smiled slyly and sneakily added this sentence.
"Tch..."
After the Fairy Tail members heard this, they voiced their disdain one after another.
"Oh!!"
But in the end, everyone still cooperated with the old man, raising their mugs and drinking in large gulps.
As large amounts of alcohol entered their mouths, everyone also stopped paying attention to Evan and the others. Those who were supposed to drink drank in large gulps, those who were supposed to be looking for quests continued to search for one that was suitable for them, and those who were supposed to fight started fighting again after Makarov's voice fell.
The entire guild once again became a chaotic mess.
But, this was Fairy Tail!
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T/N - There we go! The MC and his family finally joined Fairy Tail. With Irene on Fairy Tail’s side, the villains are about to get so fucked up.